Special Issue: Writing SystemsCover: End page of a Koran from Hamadan, Iran, dated to AD 1164. The inscription, written in Naskh script, gives the date and the name of the calligrapher (UM# NE-P-27, neg. T8-5; H. 34.3 cm, W. 19.7 cm).

Special Issue: Textiles, Costume, and OrnamentCover: Photo by Lorraine Aragon. Pipikoro artisan Tina Idjo and two daughters appliqued blouses of loomed cloth that she designed and sewed for traditional-style ceremonies.

Cover: Photo by William Isbell. Honcopampa, Peru viewed from the north, Ama Puncu is a group of multi-storied chullpas surrounding a small U-shaped plaza. Several of the chullpas are so poorly preserved that they appear as little more than earthen mounds.

Special Issue: Gifts to the Goddesses--Cyrene's Sanctuary of Demeter and PersephoneCover: Photo by Donald White. The University Museum team prepares to winch the large late Hellenistic marble statue of a priestess (Inv. 76-1307, Kane Cat. No. 147) up the steep slope of the Middle Sanctuary to flat ground on the Upper Sanctuary for eventual transfer by flatbed truck to its conservation laboratory, Summer 1976.

Special Issue: Southwestern Native Fairs and MarketsCover: Photo by Jesse Nusbaum. Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo demonstrating pottery making in 1912 in the Patio of the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe. Courtesy of the Museum of New Mexico, neg. no. 61764.

Cover: Photo by H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. The current textile inventory of Mrs. Hoan, a weaver in northern Vietnam. Five rolls of white cloth lay at the bottom of her basket. She said this cloth was used for burial shrouds.